Solution for preserving lumber.



UNITED STATES Patented July 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SOLUTION FOR PRESERVING-LUMBER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,913, dated July 12, 1904, Application filed October 10, 1903. Serial No. l'76,548. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, SIDNEY B. CHAPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Abbeville, in the county of Wilcox and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Solutions for Preserving Lumber; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in preservative compounds for securing brightsap lumber.

The object of the invention is the production of acompound possessing germicidal and preservative properties with respect to the particular fungi naturally forming upon saplumber, said compound possessing such properties in addition to the properties which the component parts of the compound possess independently.

The sap of several kinds of timber blacks immediately or very soon after being sawed. In other words, it is attacked by a fungus Ery- .szTp/wemildew or mold. Consequently the result is that the value of thelumber is greatly lessened and sometimes is rendered Worthless. In producing this invention the object of the same is to obtain a formula which Will destroy the fungi and render the lumber bright. This attack on the sap of the timber is commonly referred to as blackening, bluing, or sap discoloration.

The term sap referred to in this specification designates that part of a tree which grows between the heart and the bark, consisting of a covering or ring from one to six inches in thickness, usually of a lighter color than the heart of a tree, and in some cases the entire tree is sap.

The composition is compounded as follows: water containing a solution of from one to twelve per cent. of a commercial sulfuric acid with suificient corrosive mercuric chlorid to 45 make the solution of the strength of one to five thousand and up to one to one thousand of the corrosive mercuric chlorid. Salicylic acid is also suspended in the solution in suffioient quantity to make the said solution contain from one-tenth per cent. to four per cent. of the said salicylic acid. Stating the proportion of the ingredients more clearly, ninety-three parts of water is mixed with seven parts of sulfuric acid, (acidum sulfuricum,) with the addition of enough corrosive mercuric chlorid to make the above solution contain one part of corrosive mercuric chlorid to two thousand of the above solution.

The solution of the above substances in water is to be sprinkled or sprayed on the lumber until the surface of said lumber is entirely covered thereby as the same comes from the saw, or, if it is preferred, the lumber may be submerged in a vat containing the above substances. gated with some or 'all of the above substances after it is stacked.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A germicidal and preservative compound for sap-lumber comprising solution of water, sulfiuric acid, mercuric chlorid, and salicylic aci 2. A germicidal and preservative compound for sap-lumber comprising a solution of approximately ninety-three parts water, seven parts sulfuric acid, and a relatively small quaintity of mercuric chlorid and salicylic acI In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SIDNEY B. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

J. R. MONROE, F. E. TAYLOR.

The lumber can also be fumi-. 

